Salutations!
The responses I received were SO helpful, I'm quoting, paraphrasing
and summarizing for folks some of the things I've learned:
(1)
"In the very old days,in CCU/8 times there were 2 versions of boards,"
one for WIN only and the second for WIN+linux. With the CCU/9 this
issue was solved, but it returned with the CCU10.
To boot Linux on a CCU10 the minimum EC level is 06 (it's written on
the board). If you have a CCU11, any ECL is fine. And, of course, with
an IPSO, you are GOOD!
The EC level on our CCU10 is 05. This means that we just missed linux
compatibility.
This already means that we'll go with the Vista option.
At least we have an optional OS to keep our computers on the network.
(and the DPX with a CCU/9 will go with linux!)
(2)
When I followed the partitioning recommendations from Bruker for the
RHEL install (but on the CentOS5 install) then I didn't get some of
the error messages on boot that I got when I just took the defaults
for the CentOS5. The messages didn't seem to interfere with running
the spectrometer, but I did find them annoying.
To not get the messages, when I installed the CentOS5 32-bit I chose
"customize" for the partitions step and then deleted the listed hard
drives and logical volumes. Then I added the following hard drives
(and no logical volumes)
/boot 125 MegaB (force to be primary, file system type ext3)
/ 16 GigaB (force to be primary, file system type ext3)
/swap 4 GigaB (file system type SWAP)
/opt (fill to maximum allowable size, file system type ext3)
In the boot loader configuration, I accepted the default GRUB
(3)
With CentOS5 (32-bit) there were a lot of packages to check. The
instructions (for RHEL) say to just install "everything," but here is
a shorter list of which packages seem to be necessary if you'd like a
less bloated install:
open a terminal window once CentOS is installed.
"yum install <package name>" to install the latest versions of the packages
(nothing to do, means it is already installed)
Here are six package names to try:
tftp, tftp-server, xinetd, dhcp, portmap, bootparamd, nfs-utils, bfsd, uucp
(developer packages)
Are services like nfs, nfslock, and bootparamd all on? iptables is
off?(see the troubleshooting guide in the installation manual on the
image disk with the program for how to check these things)
(4)
Other really important things:
Make sure that the hostname and hostname -f match.
Make sure that eth1 is defined correctly (manual IP 149.236.99.1 and
subnet 255.255.255.0)
With our IPSO and CentOS5 we have a host where the underscore was not
supported. I just ignored it and it was OK. But, a nice resolution was
offered here:
Other communication related issues that may arise with you Linux
installation have to do with syntax used in the "hosts" file.
The hosts file can be found in: /etc/
By default, Bruker sets up the hosts file with a couple of lines like
the following:
--------------------- two lines from the hosts file -----------------------
149.236.99.1 ASP_ST2
149.236.99.99 spect av700
We have one host where the underscore was not supported by the
particular flavour of Linux that was installed. To resolve this
issue, we edited the hosts file to have something like:
149.236.99.1 ASP-ST2 dhcp ASP_ST2
So, we have the dash character instead of the underscore. The ASP_ST2
is kept as an alias, just like the av700 is an alias to "spect" in the
example above.
I'm not sure why we had to do that, but it worked.
GOOD LUCK to all!
Yael
Quoting "Yael S. Balazs" <balazs_at_technion.ac.il>:
> Greetings,
>
> I ask because, Microsoft support for Windows XP is ending on April 8, 2014.
> For us that means that we cannot have any computers with windows XP on-line.
> Since we make great use the network for data transfer, we would like
> to keep our computers on-line.
>
> Has/is anyone else changing a 32-bit (HP xw4600 workstation) from XP
> to CentOS or RHEL and succeeding in getting it to iiconf (or telnet,
> or ping) with a CCU10 of an Avance I spectrometer?
>
> With the IPSO of the Avance III, TS 2.1 pl6 is running fine on CentOS5.
>
> I'm stuck with the CCU of the Avance I. I've been through the
> installation guide for troubleshooting, but I haven't found my
> problem. I've also seen this website
> http://pkrsep09-2.blogspot.co.il, which I thought was great, but I
> didn't fine my problem.
> Any more clues to send my way would be highly appreciated!
>
> Sincerely,
> Yael
>
> P.S. I have basic experience now with XP to CentOS 5 (for 32-bit HPs
> that came with the spectrometer) for AvanceIII (IPSO) if anyone has
> questions on the setup (without ICONNMR) I'd be happy to share what
> worked for me.
>
> --
> Yael S. Balazs, Ph.D. http://nmrlab.technion.ac.il
> NMR Facility Manager phone: +972-4-829-3748
> Schulich Faculty of Chemistry fax: +972-4-829-5703
> Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
> Haifa, Israel 32000 email: balazs_at_technion.ac.il
--
Yael S. Balazs, Ph.D. http://nmrlab.technion.ac.il
NMR Facility Manager phone: +972-4-829-3748
Schulich Faculty of Chemistry fax: +972-4-829-5703
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel 32000 email: balazs_at_technion.ac.il
Received on Sun Nov 17 2013 - 00:20:11 MST